Gather your courage, homemakers!

[Lisa]

http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2014/08/ ... ou-do.html

Yet another long post on the value of doing pretty much nothing all day. I'm reading Quiverfull, and one paragraph really struck home:

A woman's neediness in isolation, they insist, is itself particularly appealing to her husband - the loneliness that builds from a day alone at home "awakens" her husband's desire.

In what I realize is projection, I've always assumed that Lydia's husband found the house stifling in its pink chintziness, but now I wonder if he encourages and augments her extreme fear or sensitivity to noise, disorder, humans, pretty much everything. After all, he's older and she was pretty tepid about their marriage in the first place. Maybe he keeps her afraid of the world in order to have her at home always, dying for his return.